Each Form is its Own Unlocking²
Fain would I Dwell on Form, Fain, Fain³
Forms exist Independent of earthly Embodiment
And perhaps beyond any Mortal Comprehension⁴
The Hand Searching the page first Touches Form⁵
An Artist, and one with the most Scrupulous eye for
Form, had Superintended all these Arrangements⁶
The Creator of Form must Suffer Formlessness⁷
The urge toward Form is the urge toward God:
Perfection of either Unhinged, Unutterable⁸
This is Form Gulping after Formlessness⁹
Form is the Ceremonial Dress Code¹⁰
¹ Louis Henry Sullivan, The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered
² Tishani Doshi, Conversation with Timothy Green June 17, 2021
³ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
⁴ James Miller, Examined Lives
⁵ Susan Griffin, To the Far Corners of a Fractured World
⁶ Edgar Allan Poe, Mitzengerstein
⁷ Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
⁸ Charles Wright, Scar Tissue
⁹ Wallace Stevens, The Auroras of Autumn
¹⁰ Jack Underwood, On Poetry and Uncertain Subjects